I have the knife block with chopping boards only been 4 days in operation. So far I am very happy, but I am anyway a fan of the Joseph Joseph - products. The blades are sharp and the board that I have used, has survived the use scratch-free. What has shocked me a bit, the packaging was for shipping purposes: The carton was twice the size of the wrapped object, it was not a filling material around it, and it was settled a vacuum bag which was not inflated. So struggled in the packaging back and forth and the original box also had a few small verknickte corners. On the boards and knives but nothing is broken, the shaky packaging I found, however, questionable. But the goods have arrived super time, so overall okay.